Are there any issues using MathWorks products with Microsoft Office 2007?

I use one or more of the following features or products with Microsoft Office 2007:

• MATLAB

--- reading and writing XLS files

--- MATLAB Notebook

--- publish

• Excel Link
• Database Toolbox
• MATLAB Builder for Excel
• MATLAB Report Generator
• Simulink Report Generator

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

Microsoft Office 2007 was released after MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b). The following issues are known to exist when using releases earlier than R2007b version of MathWorks products with Microsoft Office 2007.

• Publish to PowerPoint fails with the following error when using cell mode publish.

 Error in ==> codetools\private\mxdom2ppt at 20

 slide = presentationSlides.Add(slidesCount,'ppLayoutBlank');

 Error in ==> publish at 181

         mxdom2ppt(dom,outputAbsoluteFilename);

 Error in ==> mdbpublish at 47

 outputPath = publish(file, options);

• XLSWRITE does not work for new limits of Excel 2007 spreadsheets. Excel 2007 increased the limits of the number of available rows and columns. XLSWRITE does not calculate values outside of the new limits correctly.
• XLSWRITE cannot create a new workbook for Excel 2007
• Publishing to Word 2007 causes a dialog box with the following message to popup:

 To add or remove items in the table of contents:

   1. Select text in your document

   2. Click the outline level in the toolbar to make the text appear in the table of contents